Seduction of fiction : a plea for putting emotions back into literary interpretation.
By meshing psychology with literary analysis, this book inspires us to view the reading of fictional works as an emotional and seductive affair between reader and writer. Arguing that current teaching practices have contributed to the current decline in the study of literature, Jean-François Vernay&...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2016]
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in affect therory and literary criticism.
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Table of Contents:
- Author's preface to the English edition
- Translator's Note
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The multiple possibilities of reading
- Chapter 2: Interpretation as an art
- Chapter 3: Context matters
- Chapter 4: The writer's seductive power
- Chapter 5: The symbiosis of psychoanalysis and fiction
- Chapter 6: The art of storytelling
- Chapter 7: The novel as a work of bad faith
- Chapter 8: The impossible quest for truth
- Chapter 9: Breaking New Ground: The Psycholiterary Approach to Fiction
- Conclusion.